January 21, 2014 Shevchenko district court of Kyiv thrown in jail for two months, the online edition of the journalist and the newspaper "Svoboda" Andrew Loza . Court Decision svobodovtsev bound to the pre-trial investigation. He is accused of allegedly being involved in riots . It is held in the detention of a journalist served as editorial tasks. During detention , he seized certificate journalist and Assistant to MP Michael Blavatska .

The trial of Andrew vines lasted over an hour. He is accused under Article 294 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine . In custody of the defendant insisted investigator investigator Shevchenkyvskyi Police Department in Kiev Nicholas Mazurov . He claimed that he and others " unidentified men in an amount of 3-5 thousand were involved in the riots on the streets Hrushevskoho January 19 ." Also, the investigator said that Andrew Loza and the local people used special means are prohibited and threatened police officers and their families. Despite the fact that Andrew Loza was removed only mobiles , the investigator said in the petition that the man was wearing a helmet , mask , body armor and carrying a prohibited special devices that are used against the police.

Judge Natalia Volokitina ignored the arguments of defenders of the accused - no witnesses from the scene. Instead, witnesses in the case were the police Shevchenkyvskyi police station, evidence of which was adopted on January 19. Same protocol for Andrew Loza was concluded at 2:00 on January 20. That is, witnesses who were not even at the scene were questioned before being brought into rayviddilok suspect. The place given event , however , logically , would have to be street Hrushevskoho the petition was investigating ... office in the Shevchenko district police . It should be noted that as evidence " fault" was presented to Andrew Vine 3 photos from the event , which was allegedly showing the accused had serious differences with his appearance. The Court also took into consideration the bail Andrew Vine from the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine and a number of MPs, including svobodovtsev Anatolia covenants , Oleg Mahnitskoho , Edward Leonov , Michael Blavatska and Igor Sabi and parliamentarians from the opposition of others .

The argument on the application of a preventive measure to Andrew Vine were fears the investigator and prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office Artem Shevchenko Onishchenko about " possible concealment or continuation of a criminal violation, destruction of evidence and evading orhnaiv preliminary investigation ."

" These decisions are , of course, is illegal because we declared an absence of reasonable suspicion . Evidence provided to substantiate the suspicion , not proof in the sense of criminal proceedings. They do not confirm any information that is in this suspicion . Yet it was ignored by the court. present case is not a matter in question in the legal plane. our goal - to turn it into a legal plane. Now we will prepare the appeal within 5 days and submitted to the court of Appeal to appeal this decision , "- commented on the tribunal nationalist lawyer Oksana Tomchuk .

" The court , which has been previously written. This is not a court , and formality . Court did not take into account the evidence and facts that occurred . Evidence which enabled the court investigation , show a complete lack of involvement Andrew Vine to criminal penal action. was not provided any evidence of the risks of violation of procedural behavior during the proceedings of the criminal case . investigator named risks: others commit crimes and the likelihood that the Vine will put pressure on witnesses, hiding from the investigation , but did not provide any confirmation that that the suspect may commit such actions .

Judge served as an indication of the Presidential Administration. They are delaying all row - those who fall under the arm , in order to intimidate society. It is the task of repressive authority " - expressed their outrage decision, the Deputy of Ukraine Oleg svobodivets Mahnitskyy .

It should be noted that the nationalist within two months was a volunteer at the press center of the Staff of national resistance . He is a journalist and online edition of the newspaper "Svoboda ". During the events on the street , he served Hrushevskoho editorial tasks.

Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police continued in the center of Ukraine's capital, Kiev, overnight into Tuesday.

Demonstrators have been rallying since the weekend in defiance of new laws that limit the right to protest.

The Interior Ministry said Tuesday that more than 30 protesters had been detained and 119 police officers injured since Sunday afternoon, when the clashes began.

The city health care department reported 122 injured and 50 hospitalized. The number injured is probably higher, as many people reportedly turn to medical volunteers for help rather than official services for fear of consequences. Protest organizers said those treated in hospitals are questioned by police and registered as participants of mass protests, which may lead to arrest and criminal charges.

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The latest clashes are an escalation of weeks of largely peaceful public protests prompted by Yanukovych's decision in November to spurn a planned trade deal with the European Union and turn toward Russia instead.

Russian gas deal

In December, despite weeks of protest by anti-government demonstrators, Yanukovych agreed to a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin for Moscow to buy Ukrainian debt and slash the price Kiev pays for its gas.

The tumult in Ukraine goes to the heart of its future ties with Russia and the rest of Europe. Ukraine is split between pro-European regions in the west and a more Russia-oriented east.

The protests have unfolded since November 21, when Yanukovych changed his stance on the EU trade pact, which had been years in the making.

The demonstrators say an EU agreement would open borders to trade and set the stage for modernization and inclusion. Ukraine's government says the terms needed to be renegotiated to protect Ukrainians better.

...Warning that the "situation is getting out of control", Mr Lavrov added: "We have information that much of this is being stimulated from abroad," and condemned the violence as a "complete violation of European standards of behaviour".

There is mounting evidence that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has returned to tactics targeting the opposition last employed under President, Leonid Kuchma. It should be borne in mind that these tactics were never entirely abandoned. The SBU's domestic political role has remained because of the lack of democratic oversight, large numbers of personnel, primarily focused on domestic "threats" (30,000 SBU personnel compared to a combined figure of 6,000 in the UK's MI5 and MI6) and a Soviet political culture that was never rooted out. A final factor is the temptation of Ukrainian presidents to use the SBU against their political and business opponents.

The SBU's tactics can be divided into several categories with much of the pre-emption drawing on lessons learnt from mistakes made by the authorities in 2004 when the opposition and Orange Revolution thwarted a fraudulent election to place Viktor Yanukovych in power. First, intervention in the media with the aim of portraying the opposition in a negative light, and the authorities positively. ...SBU Chairman and oligarch, Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, owns Ukraine's most popular television channel, Inter. Khoroshkovsky is reportedly aligned with the gas lobby that is influential within the Party of Regions and other political forces.

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Wednesday is Ukraine's Day of National Unity, but the country has never felt so divided.

At least three people have died in Kiev, the first casualties of a protest movement that has rumbled on for two months before bursting dramatically into violence over the weekend.

Two protesters were shot dead during clashes with police, who attempted to take back control of the city centre. Prosecutors confirmed earlier claims by the protest leaders that the pair had been shot with live ammunition. A third protester died after falling from a high column at Dynamo Kiev's football stadium while fighting with police, Reuters reported.

Oleg Musiy, the coordinator of the medical service at Independence Square, told a pro-opposition radio station that another two people had been killed, though this could not be confirmed.

As President Viktor Yanukovych held long talks with the trio of opposition leaders who have led the protests for the past two months, the deaths seemed likely to further inflame the tense situation in the country.

Parts of central Kiev resembled a battle zone as thick clouds of smoke filled the air and the sound of stun grenades rang out. Police shot at demonstrators with rubber bullets, and rumours swirled that a storm of the main protest encampment, the heavily barricaded Independence Square, could begin at any time. At one point, police deployed an armoured personnel carrier to back up their movements.

Martial law was effectively declared at 4pm local time, as shops, hotels and other businesses in the area surrounding the hub of the protests were reportedly ordered to close their doors for the day. A full-on storm was not immediately forthcoming, however.

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Vitali Klitschko, the opposition leader and former heavyweight boxer, called on Yanukovych to announce snap elections as a way to resolve an ongoing political crisis.

"I know that this very second he [the president] is watching this live broadcast. You, the president, you know that snap elections will change the situation without blood, and we'll do everything to achieve this," Klitschko told the crowd in Independence Square on Wednesday evening. He added that talks with Yanukovych that started on Wednesday would have to continue on Thursday, otherwise "we will go on the attack"....Yuriy Lutsenko, a Ukrainian former interior affairs minister, called on riot police to stop fighting against the protesters. "Soldiers, if you stand here we will become Russia and you will have to go and fight in Chechnya," he said through a loudspeaker, addressing lines of police from a minivan in the middle of the crowd. "This is not your war. This is a war of the Ukrainian people against the mafia."...The protests began when Yanukovych turned his back on a planned association agreement with the European Union, citing financial pressure and the need for closer ties with Russia. They have since grown into a more general protest against Yanukovych's government, and have also attracted a noisy minority who hold radical far-right views....

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The outside world cannot stand idly by. Western governments are already deeply involved in Ukraine. Among former Soviet republics, Ukraine is the single biggest recipient of US aid and, worldwide, the fourth largest recipient of American aid. In the period 1991-97, the European Union, and member states gave ECU 4.2 billion of which 1.8 billion was in grants. Since the early 1990s, the World Bank has approved more than $3 billion in loans and grants and two guarantees amounting to $220 million.CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphThis large-scale Western involvement was motivated mainly by geopolitical considerations. I, too, have been deeply engaged in Ukraine, but my aim has been to help Ukraine and other former Soviet countries make the transition from closed to open societies. I established the Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation in 1989, two years before Ukraine became an independent country. Since then I have given more than $100 million to support Ukraine.

NED does not administer programs directly, but rather provides funding for numerous private groups and organizations. NED has a distinctive grant-making philosophy which distinguishes it in the donor field. NED views its work as a support system for groups that are working to build up their credibility and effectiveness as democratizing forces in their own society, as a means to counter and offer an alternative to anti-democratic elements. A bi-partisan Board of Directors makes funding decisions based on established criteria. NED functions currently with 145 full-time and 7 part-time staff members who are responsible for program development and evaluation, grant management, financial oversight, research and outreach. Currently, NED operates under a provisional Negotiated Indirect Cost Recovery Agreement (NICRA) of 14.08 percent.

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The Euromaidan (Ukrainian: Євромайдан, literally "Eurosquare")[nb 5] is a wave of ongoing demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on the night of 21 November 2013 with very large public protests demanding closer European integration. The scope of the protests has since evolved, with many calls for the resignation of President Yanukovych and his government.[58] Protesters also have stated they joined because of the dispersal of protesters on 30 November and "a will to change life in Ukraine".[3]

The demonstrations began on the night of 21 November 2013, when spontaneous protests erupted in the capital of Kiev after the Ukrainian government suspended preparations for signing an Association Agreement and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the European Union.[59] After a few days of demonstrations an increasing number of university students joined the protests

Even if EU’s popularity has decreased since last year, (4) and integration into the EU is not widely accepted, Yanukovych’s authoritarian regime has brought the population to a boiling point. The people’s fury in the streets was as real as the freezing cold they faced to make their voices heard – these people want their civil liberties, a better life, and safety from authoritarianism. Some see hope in the flag of the “democratic” European Union, they think it will be different from their long, suffocating past under Russia’s iron fist – after all, they’re done with that (ironic to say the least, substituting one imperialist, fascist structure for another, but more on that later).

These circumstances prove how outrageous Western and Russian leaders and the Ukrainian ruling class are. The people of the Ukraine are not part of their closed-door deals, except as consumers of ever-more expensive products and services (high European quality and “market forces” they will be told, or as an exportable workforce) whilst at home a more disciplined de-unionized working people (5) i.e. people as a commodity and a means for more profit. This is why there is no talk about the real issues directly affecting people’s lives, other than from anarchists in Ukraine who are the only ones willing talk about it (6) – please refer to below.

Prominent Ukrainian journalist Serhiy Leschenko managed to meet and briefly interview Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser from 1977-1981, and to cut a 1 minute, 30 second video in which he states his support of the EuroMaidan demonstrations under way in Ukraine.

Brzezinski, who was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928, has been a strong champion of Ukrainian national independence as a bulwark against Russian imperialism. He will be testifying at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Jan. 15 in Washington, D.C.

"You now have to translate that into an effective political tool," Brzezinski says in the video, referring to the EuroMaidan protests. He called on Ukrainians to form a committee on national unity with the goal of becoming a full-fledged member of the European community

Yuriy Verbytsky, 50, was a respected seismologist who shared the aspirations of many Ukrainians to join the European Union.

A passionate alpinist and the father of a grown-up daughter, Verbytsky had been bringing warm tea to protesters camped out for more than two months on Kyiv's Independence Square to protest the government's decision to shelve a key EU deal.

On January 22, he was found dead in a forest outside the Ukrainian capital with broken ribs and traces of duct tape on his hands and clothes...

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Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Protesters who seized the Ukrainian Justice Ministry left the building Monday, after a minister warned she would call for a state of emergency as the country's political crisis deepened.

However, demonstrators remained outside the ministry, where a sign and front window were smashed, creating a blockade.

As the Eastern European country's political crisis escalates after weeks of demonstrations that led to clashes, Oleksandr Danylyuk, the leader of one of the protest factions, said the retreat was done in order not to create difficulties in negotiations between the government and opposition.

In a televised statement, Justice Minister Olena Lukash had warned that she would ask the National Security and Defense Council to impose a state of emergency if the anti-government protesters, who had seized the building in the capital of Kiev on Sunday night, did not leave....The situation is not just tense; it is really serious. The next few days could decide in what direction Ukraine is going to take its future," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a prepared statement.

"Refrain from violence and make every effort to seek a political solution -- that, I believe, is what needs to be done at this time."

A protester shoots fireworks at police during clashes in Kiev on January 23.

Sustaining the demonstrations in Kiev is a feat of organisation, but volunteers from across the city are happy to oblige ...

Tens of thousands of people camped in Independence Square or manning the barricades need food and drink, so women arrive bearing trays of sandwiches and flasks of tea.

Whenever a public building is captured, the cry goes up for more bags stuffed with ice and snow to fortify the windows. Teams of volunteers are always on hand for the task.

Outside Ukrainian House, an exhibition centre that fell to the protesters on Sunday, Marina Panchak was chiselling away at the ice on the stairs, before piling the shards into a white sack.

”I’m doing this for our freedom and for the future of our children,” she said. “Our people have no chance to live under this president and this government.” Ms Panchak is 65, childless and retired, yet she went about her task with gusto.

All around, the last patches of snow and ice were scooped up and stuffed into bags. Some would be used to fortify Ukrainian House, others to reinforce the barricades.

At the main rampart on Grushevskogo street, where the confrontation with riot police is continuous, the protesters risk being drenched by water cannons in freezing temperatures. Large green waterproofs are duly being handed out.

The men on the frontline need to protect their heads - so bags of old army helmets have appeared. They also need a constant supply of tyres to feed the fire in front of the barricade. A nearby sign reads “Wanted: your tyres!” Volunteers are duly turning up, wheeling their donations.

If a demonstrator wants a bath, there is a list of friendly homes where no-one will be turned away. When they sleep, they can bed down inside any of the occupied public buildings.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As protests against the Ukrainian president spread to cities across the country, Pope Francis offered his prayers for the nation's people, "particularly for those who lost their lives in the last few days and for their families."

At least three protesters died Jan. 22 in Kiev, Ukraine's capital and the site of anti-government protests since late November

Speaking after reciting the Angelus Jan. 26 with visitors in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis said, "I hope there would develop a constructive dialogue between the institutions and civil society and, avoiding any recourse to violent actions, a spirit of peace and search for the common good would prevail in the hearts of all."

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A leading anti-government activist in Ukraine who had been missing for over a week has turned up alive – but covered in blood.

Dmitry Bulatov claims he was abducted, tortured and had part of his ear cut off by men with Russian accents, before he was dumped in the countryside outside Kyiv.

“I was crucified, nailed. They cut my ears and face. And I have wounds all over my body. But thank God, I’m alive,” he said as he showed off his wounds to reporters.

Doctors say Bulatov has numerous cuts but no life-threatening injuries.

His AutoMaidan group organised anti-government protest motorcades and used cars to ferry supplies to protesters....The United Nations' human rights office called for an investigation into reports of kidnappings and torture, and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she was appalled by the signs of torture inflicted on Bulatov.

“All such acts are unacceptable and must immediately be stopped,” Ashton said in a statement. “It is the authorities’ responsibility to take all necessary measures to address the current atmosphere of intimidation and impunity which allows for such acts to take place.”

“We are appalled by the deaths reported in recent days in Kiev, which should be promptly, thoroughly and independently investigated. We are also calling for an investigation into reports of kidnappings and torture,” Rupert Colville, spokesman for UN rights chief Navi Pillay, told a briefing in Geneva.

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On Tuesday, Ukraine experienced the bloodiest day in its post-Soviet history as police clashed with opposition forces camped out in Kiev's main square. Even if they are forced out, the protesters won't give up the fight....

The revolutionary fortress, which is known as the Maidan (Ukrainian for city square), also had its own command structure, independent of the political leaders of the revolution who have been trying in vain to negotiate an end to the crisis. One of the three overseers of the Maidan, known as commandants, is Stepan Kubiv, a lawmaker in the national parliament for the pro-Western Fatherland party. On Tuesday, as the government troops surrounded the Maidan and tire fires raged along its perimeter, he got on the stage in the center of the square to explain what was at stake. “Stand up, Ukraine!” Kubiv shouted into the microphone. “Today the fate of our children and grandchildren is decided. The fate of all of us!” Then, in a hint at the bloodshed likely to ensue by morning, he told the armed men guarding what was left of the barricades, “Death to the enemies!”...

KIEV, Ukraine — The security authorities in Ukraine offered the first indication on Wednesday that the deadly political violence afflicting Kiev had spread far beyond the city limits, announcing a crackdown on what the Interior Ministry called “extremist groups” that had torched buildings and seized weapons nationwide.

The Interior Ministry announcement of an “anti-terrorist operation” across the country came a day after Kiev was gripped with the most lethal mayhem since protests erupted in November, leaving at least 25 dead including nine police officers. The Health Ministry said that 241 people had been wounded.

The violence turned a protest encampment in Kiev’s central Independence Square into a flaming war zone that sharply escalated the political crisis that has convulsed the former Soviet republic of 46 million for the past three months. The crisis raised East-West tensions over Ukraine’s future, with Russia denouncing the protesters as Nazi-like coup plotters and the European Union threatening severe sanctions against Ukrainian government leaders....As the scope of the violence became clear, Russia, President Viktor F. Yanukovych’s most important ally in the crisis, issued a blistering statement blaming the “criminal activities of radical opposition forces” for causing the bloodshed and denouncing European countries for refusing to acknowledge that. When the protests began late last year, they opposed the government’s rejection of a trade agreement with the European Union....

A Ukrainian-American English language newspaper that has been in publication since 1933 and which is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey has been at the vanguard of pumping out neo-conservative propaganda calling for direct U.S. intervention into the affairs of Ukraine and full support for the Euro-Maidan protests in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Weekly, published by the Ukrainian National Association (UNA), bills itself as a «fraternal non-profit association». However, its non-profit status in no way connotes a non-partisan political stance. The Ukrainian Weekly’s February 2 issue was replete with politically-loaded headlines, including : «Russia props up Yanukovych [the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych] as his support base erodes», «The real extremists are the country’s leaders», and «Yulia [former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, jailed for abuse of power and embezzlement] to protesters: Press on».

The parent organization of the Ukrainian Weekly, the UNA, headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey and founded in 1894 in Shamokin, Pennsylvania largely by Ukrainian immigrants working in the coal industry, now has some 50,000 members in the United States and Canada. Although the association has long advocated for Ukrainian independence and had links with pro-Nazi Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera after Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, upon the onset of the Cold War it became a propaganda cipher for the Central Intelligence Agency and its clandestine influence operations inside the Soviet Union. The UNA worked closely with the CIA’s Radio Free Europe/Liberty and other so-called «captive nations» organizations supported by the CIA and other organs of the U.S. government…

After the Cold War, the UNA shifted its ties to the various non-governmental organizations financed by international hedge fund tycoon George Soros,, most notably the Open Society Institute and The UNA also publishes two Ukrainian language periodicals, Svoboda, a daily, and Veselka, a monthly....As it turns out, Ukrainians employed by the CIA, including those working via Soros, continue to enjoy the company of prostitutes. Today, these prostitutes go under the names of FEMEN, Pussy Riot, and Voina and one topless Ukrainian FEMEN member, ironically named Inna Shevchenko, tossed a Molotov cocktail at the Russian embassy in Berlin at the time of this writing.

Washington, D.C. ­– U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) today delivered the following remarks on Ukraine at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C.:...

“Fifth, if Ukraine’s political crisis persists or deepens, which is a real possibility, we must support creative Ukrainian efforts to resolve it. Senator Murphy and I heard a few such ideas last weekend – from holding early elections, as the opposition is now demanding, to the institution of a technocratic government with a mandate to make the difficult reforms required for Ukraine’s long-term economic health and sustainable development. Decisions such as these are for Ukrainians to make – no one else – and if they request our assistance, we should provide it where possible....

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Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- Embattled Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych insisted in an interview aired on Ukrainian TV Saturday that he is not resigning and not leaving the country.

Around the same time, an opposition leader and former Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, was freed from prison.

Ukraine's Parliament voted unanimously to remove Yanukovych from office. It's not clear if this is binding.

The Parliament also voted to hold new elections on May 25, a key opposition demand.

Yanukovych recorded his defiant statement in Kharkiv, a pro-Russian stronghold in the eastern part of Ukraine....

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The unrest in Kiev is a matter for the Ukrainian people to address, not the United States, says Ron Paul. A majority of citizens from both countries would agree with him too, he contends.

"The American people are very leery of getting involved in another squabble in some other country," Paul told Fox News on Wednesday shortly after both sides of the conflict agreed to a truce after two days of violence resulted in 26 deaths. "I would be willing to wager most of the people in the Ukraine would like to see the United States stay out, and they'd like to see the Russians stay out."

The former Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate expressed his hope for a separation between eastern and western Ukraine given the differences that already exist between both sides. He floated the idea of a confederation between the two sides.

Paul, who has advocated a more isolationist approach for the U.S. throughout his career, said the current situation could serve as the first step towards "trying to set a moral standard" in its foreign policy.

"That's their business, and it certainly isn't ours," he said. "We've tried it for too long, and the American people are sick and tired of it, and we're also out of money."

A former Israeli army officer is playing a leading role in the anti-government protests in Ukraine, PressTV has reported.According to reports, the unnamed Israeli is commanding a group of 20 Ukrainian militants while four other Israelis, who had also previously served in the army, are reported to have taken part in opposition rallies in Ukraine's capital, Kiev.The Israelis were born in Ukraine but migrated to Israel and joined its armed forces before returning to the European country for the demonstrations.Ukrainian media has also said that an Israeli tycoon provides financial support to the opposition in Ukraine, adding that Israel's Mossad intelligence agency is one of the instigators of the unrest in the country.

International Business Conference at Ukraine in Washington - National Press Club - December 13, 2013

Victoria Nuland - Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs

US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, Nuland said: “Since the declaration of Ukrainian independence in 1991, the United States supported the Ukrainians in the development of democratic institutions and skills in promoting civil society and a good form of government - all that is necessary to achieve the objectives of Ukraine’s European. We have invested more than 5 billion dollars to help Ukraine to achieve these and other goals. ” Nuland said the United States will continue to “promote Ukraine to the future it deserves.”

On 24 January 2005, Tymoshenko was appointed acting Prime Minister of Ukraine under Yushchenko’s presidency. On 4 February, Tymoshenko’s premiership appointment was ratified by the parliament with an overwhelming majority of 373 votes (226 were required for approval). On 28 July, Forbes named her the third most powerful woman in the world, behind only Condoleezza Rice and Wu Yi. However, in the magazine’s list published on 1 September 2006, Tymoshenko was not included in the top 100.

Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (Ukrainian: Юлія Володимирівна Тимошенко, pronounced [ˈjulijɑ ʋɔlɔˈdɪmɪriʋnɑ tɪmɔˈʃɛnkɔ]), née Grigyan (Ukrainian: Ґріґян), born 27 November 1960, is a Ukrainian politician. She was the Prime Minister of Ukraine from 24 January to 8 September 2005, and again from 18 December 2007 to 4 March 2010. She placed third in Forbes Magazine’s List of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2005. Tymoshenko is the leader of the All-Ukrainian Union “Fatherland” party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

She has been a practising economist and academic. Prior to her political career, Yulia Tymoshenko was a successful but controversial businesswoman in the gas industry, becoming by some estimates one of the richest people in the country. Before becoming Ukraine’s first female Prime Minister in 2005, Tymoshenko co-led the Orange Revolution.

Tymoshenko was a candidate in the Ukrainian presidential elections of 2010, but lost this election to Viktor Yanukovych (Tymoshenko received 45.47% of the votes in the second and final round of this election). At first Tymoshenko challenged the election results, claiming the vote was rigged, but withdrew her appeal on 20 February 2010, stating, “It became clear that the court is not out to establish the truth”.

Since May 2010 a number of criminal cases have been opened against Tymoshenko. On 11 October 2011, a Ukrainian court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison after she was found guilty of abuse of office when brokering the 2009 gas deal with Russia. The conviction is seen as “justice being applied selectively under political motivation” by the European Union and other international organizations.

Tymoshenko is currently being held in prison at Kharkiv and has been on hunger strike since 20 April 2012

Yulia Tymoshenko (born Grigyan) was born 27 November 1960, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). Her mother Ludmila Nikolaevna Telegina (née Nelepova), was born 11 August 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk.Her father Vladimir Abramovich Grigyan was born 3 December 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk and was, according to his Soviet passport, Latvian.Vladimir left the family when Yulia was three years old. Tymoshenko took the surname of her mother “Telegina” – before graduating in 1977.In 1979, Yulia married Oleksandr Tymoshenko, son of a middle-level Soviet official. In 1980 their daughter Yevhenia (Eugenia) was born.

"If Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war," warns a senior Russian government official. The FT reports Russia is prepared to fight a war over the Ukrainian territory of Crimea (where the largest ethnic Russian population lives and they have a military base). Conjuring images of the 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia, the official told the FT, "they will lose Crimea first [because] we will go in and protect [it], just as we did in Georgia." The Kremlin regards the Georgian conflict as the biggest stand-off between Russia and the west since the end of the Cold War and it has fed determination in Moscow to push back against what it believes to be western attempts to contain Russia.

“If Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war,” the official said. “They will lose Crimea first [because] we will go in and protect [it], just as we did in Georgia.” In August 2008, Russian troops invaded Georgia after the Georgian military launched a surprise attack on the separatist region of South Ossetia in an effort to establish its dominance over the republic.

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The brief conflict with Georgia pitted Russia indirectly against the US and Nato, which had earlier tried to put Georgia on a path to Nato membership. The Kremlin regards the Georgian conflict as the biggest stand-off between Russia and the west since the end of the Cold War and it has fed determination in Moscow to push back against what it believes to be western attempts to contain Russia.

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The warning of a similar scenario comes because Ukraine’s civil conflict has fanned tension in Crimea. On the peninsula, located on the northern coast of the Black Sea where Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is stationed, ethnic Russians make up almost 60 per cent of the population, with Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars accounting for the rest.

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Volodymyr Konstantinov, speaker of Crimea’s parliament, said on Thursday that the region might try to secede from Ukraine if the country split. “It is possible, if the country breaks apart,” he told the Russian news agency Interfax. “And everything is moving towards that.” Russian media also quoted him as saying Crimeans might turn to Russia for protection.

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The Kremlin has been eager to stress that it is not interfering in Ukraine. ...

However, many government officials say in private that Ukraine falls inside Russia’s sphere of influence. “We will not allow Europe and the US to take Ukraine from us. The states of the former Soviet Union, we are one family,” said a foreign policy official. “They think Russia is still as weak as in the early 1990s but we are not.”

So while some suggest the "agreement" today is great news, we suspect it solves absolutely nothing as the corruption at the core remains and the push-pull of East-West tensions remains as the only thing that matters - it sadly appears - is who controls the pipelines.

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new report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) relating to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine says that United States President Barack Obama was “stunned” yesterday after President Putin warned him in a telephone dialogue between these two leaders that Russia was prepared to send over 250,000 heavily armed troops into Crimea to protect the sovereignty of its citizens against further US-EU aggression.Crimea is an autonomous parliamentary republic within Ukraine with a population over 2 million whose ethnic makeup is over 70% Russian and Crimean Tartars as opposed to 24% Ukrainian and is the home base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet located in Sevastopol.

Putin first became involved in this latest Ukraine crisis this week, this report says, after receiving a call from Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych who called for direct intervention by Moscow due to his nation being under “direct attack” from Neo-Nazi and right-wing nationalist mobs supported by the EU and US in conflicts that have left, at least, 67 dead.

Important to note, this report continues, is that the Obama regime has instigated a number of “silent coups” against democratically elected governments it wishes to destabilize, fragment and then reabsorb into its Western alliance.

Unfortunately for the people of Ukraine, this report says, the Obama regime and their EU counterparts have aligned themselves with the much feared Right Sector opposition group that consists mostly of young men with right-wing, ultra right-wing, borderline fascists, and the even more feared far-right nationalist Svoboda Party.

The International Business Times (IBC) in warning about the Svoboda Party said it cannot be called a “fringe” party as it currently occupies 36 seats in the 450-member Ukrainian parliament, granting it status as the fourth-largest party in the country.

Further, IBC says, Svoboda is linked to other far-right groups across Europe through its membership in the Alliance of European National Movements, which includes the British National Party (BNP) of the United Kingdom and Jobbik, the nationalist party of Hungary.

In heeding Yanukovych’s call for direct intervention against these Western supported fascists, this report says, Putin ordered Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin to broker an immediate halt to the crisis by warning that Russia “was ready to go to war over Crimea”.

After meeting with Lukin, this report continues, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski was taped by ITV News bluntly stating to the Ukrainian opposition leaders, “If you don’t support this [deal] you’ll have martial law, you’ll have the army. You will all be dead.”

Should the most extreme measures be used in this crisis by the Russian military, this report further states, the legal authority to do so rests with the appeal of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea to Yanukovych that was presented by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Crimea to the President urging him to take extraordinary measures to preserve the constitutional order and unity in Ukraine, and which Putin is bound to support by treaty.

Though an agreement was reached yesterday to end this crisis, this report continues (which Russia refused to sign and Yanukovych stated on Ukrainian television that he would sign not documents with the “bandits” who terrorize the Ukraine) Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov nevertheless expressed his deepest concern to the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland about the Ukrainian opposition’s inability to negotiate on the agreement.

Even worse, this report continues, the fascist led Ukrainian parliament declared President Yanukovych constitutionally unable to carry out his duties earlier today and set an early election for 25 May, a move Yanukovych refused to recognize by declaring that a coup d’état was underway and that he is not going to resign.

One of the first “unintended blowbacks” for the West following their “silent coup” attempts in Ukraine, this report states, was Iceland’s decision earlier today to cancel their referendum on joining the EU as they are no longer interested in joining this trade bloc, a move made by Ukraine this past November that started this latest crisis in the first place.

With Foreign Minister Lavrov noting Western hypocrisy relating to Ukraine violence by stating, “When something like this happens within a European country, no one questions the need to curb the disorder and violence with firm measures”, this report concludes, it remains up to Obama to heed Putin’s warning to avert an all-out war.

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http://www.infowars.com/central-banker-appointed-as-prime-minister-of-ukraine/Central Banker Appointed as Prime Minister of UkraineThe Alex Jones Channel Alex Jones Show podcast Prison Planet TV Infowars.com Twitter Alex Jones' Facebook Infowars store Kurt Nimmo Infowars.comFebruary 27, 2014...Yats will deliver Ukraine to the international bankers. “Ukraine is on the brink of bankruptcy and needs to be saved from collapse — Yatsenyuk has a strong economic background,” Ariel Cohen, senior fellow at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, told Bloomberg on Wednesday. “Ukraine faces difficult reforms but without them there won’t be a successful future.”...

The Orange Revolution – initiated by NED, IRI, Soros and the CIA – installed a rogue’s gallery of self-seeking sociopaths who further bankrupted a country already seriously debilitated by corruption....Ukraine’s story is right out of the IMF playbook. The nation’s corrupt leaders past and present – most notably Tymoshenko, who went to prison for corruption and wholesale thievery – have enriched themselves at the expensive of ordinary Ukrainians....Now that Yanukovych is out of the picture, the banker minion Yats is lording over the Parliament, and thuggish fascists control the streets and guard against a counter revolution that might threaten Wall Street’s coup, the coast is clear for the IMF to pick up where it left off. Ukraine, now one of the poorest countries in Europe thanks to a kleptocracy supported by Washington and Wall Street, is wide open for further looting...

Yatsenyuk, 39, is a millionaire former banker who served as economy minister, foreign minister and parliamentary speaker before Yanukovych took office in 2010. Widely viewed as a technocratic reformer, he appears to enjoy the support of the U.S.

The top U.S. diplomat for Europe, Victoria Nuland, was overheard discussing Yatsenyuk and other Ukrainian opposition figures in a bugged phone called that was leaked, saying "I think Yats is the guy who's got the economic experience, the governing experience."

One of the first jobs for Yatsenyuk and other members of his new Cabinet will be seeking outside financial help from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Economists say Ukraine is close to financial collapse, with its currency under pressure and its treasury almost empty. The acting finance minister has said Ukraine will need $35 billion in bailout loans to get through the next two years.

Any such deal will require a new prime minister to take unpopular steps, such as raising the price of gas to consumers. The state gas company charges as little as one fifth of what it pays for imported Russian gas. The IMF unsuccessfully pressed Ukraine to halt the practice under two earlier bailouts, and halted aid when Kiev wouldn't comply....

An apparently bugged phone conversation in which a senior US diplomat disparages the EU over the Ukraine crisis has been posted online....A voice resembling that of Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland refers to the EU using a graphic swear word, in a conversation apparently with the US ambassador to Ukraine....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM#t=89

The 4min 10sec video was entitled "Maidan's puppets" in Russian - a reference to the square in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, where pro-EU protests have been held for months. A transcription of the whole conversation was also posted in Russian. ...The two officials also discuss frankly the merits of the three main Ukrainian opposition leaders - Vitaly Klitschko, Arseniy Yatseniuk and Oleh Tyahnybok.

The female speaker says that Mr Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxing world champion, should not be in any new government. "I don't think it's a good idea."

US officials refused to confirm or deny the tape's authenticity, but state department spokeswoman Jan Psaki said: "I didn't say it was inauthentic."

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Clandestine ops, preemptive strikes, invasion of innocent nations, deceptions fed to the citizens, LIES, debt, DHS implosion News Media manipulation, et etc. Now they are mucking around in a territory that's not a 3rd world, A WAKE UP CALL NATIONALY IS IN ORDER AND HAS BEEN FOR FAR TO LONG. Keep the posts coming folks, we are being heard. Parents & those of age , it is time to grow up and face the reality. Parasites feed on the host,, us that is. Some slowly drain the the body , others are terminal. The elite syndicate fit both descriptions.

...3.18pm GMT CNN are showing images of Russian tanks on the move in Crimea

2.27pm GMT

Summary

•Putin ask for right to use armed forces in Ukraine.

•Ukrainians accuse Russia of refusing dialogue.•European foreign ministers urge Russia to respect sovereignty of Ukraine and help reduce tension.•Pro-Russian demonstrations take place in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Odessa and other towns.•Reports of Russian troops attempting to take Ukrainian bases in Crimea.

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It was signed by Bill Clinton, John Major, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kuchma in 1994 Ukrainian parliament has now reached out directly to all the countries who signed the treaty Putin currently has 150,000 troops on Ukraine's borders and it is reported some have crossed into the country President Obama says he is 'deeply concerned' by the news

The US and Britain have both made 'crisis calls' to President Putin to warn him to respect territorial boundaries

A treaty signed in 1994 by the US and Britain could pull both countries into a war to protect Ukraine if President Putin's troops cross into the country.

Bill Clinton, John Major, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kuchma – the then-rulers of the USA, UK, Russia and Ukraine - agreed to the The Budapest Memorandum as part of the denuclearization of former Soviet republics after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Technically it means that if Russia has invaded Ukraine then it would be difficult for the US and Britain to avoid going to war.The revelation comes as reports suggest the Kremlin was moving up to 2,000 troops across the Black Sea from Novorossiysk to their fleet base at Sevastopol.

At least 20 men wearing the uniform of the Russian fleet and carrying automatic rifles surrounded a Ukrainian border guard post in a standoff near the port yesterday...

Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances is an international treaty signed on 5 February 1994 in the Hungarian capital Budapest by Ukraine, the United States of America, Russia, and the United Kingdom concerning the nuclear disarmament of Ukraine and its security relationship with the signatory countries. According to the memorandum, Russia, the USA, and the UK confirmed, in recognition of Ukraine becoming party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and in effect abandoning its nuclear arsenal to Russia, that they would:

1.Respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty within its existing borders.2.Refrain from the threat or use of force against Ukraine.3.Refrain from using economic pressure on Ukraine in order to influence its politics.4.Seek United Nations Security Council action if nuclear weapons are used against Ukraine.5.Refrain from the use of nuclear arms against Ukraine.6.Consult with one another if questions arise regarding these commitments.

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Side point...... BUT, it is the MILITIA that is protecting the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.

I expect this to be buried or twisted to equate with evil by the english speaking press. BUT, this is what a militia is really all about, why all countries should have a militia, for when a govt goes bad or as in this case, Nazis make a violent power grab.

The now infamous ‘f*ck the EU’ leaked phone conversation between Nuland and Pyatt revealed the role played by the United States in supporting Ukraine’s far-right opposition in its (ultimately successful) attempt to overthrow the left-leaning Yanukovych. “The utter criminality of Washington’s drive to install a pliant regime in Kiev sharply emerges in Nuland and Pyatt’s discussion of Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of the neo-fascist Svoboda party (who recently met with John McCain in Kiev). Nuland describes Tyahnybok as one of the “big three” within the opposition leadership. These remarks confirm that there is no confusion whatsoever within the Obama administration that it is working in partnership with fascist movements in Ukraine,” wrote Patrick O’Connor.

Another top Svoboda member, Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn, a deputy in parliament, often quotes Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, as well as other Third Reich luminaries like Ernst Rohm and Gregor Strasser. Among other things, Svoboda seeks to end all immigration and ensure that all civil service jobs are filled by ethnic Ukrainians. The Nation magazine reported that Svoboda also seeks to ban abortions, abolish gun control, “ban the Communist ideology,” and prohibit the adoption of Ukrainian children by foreigners

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Soros Fund Management has doubled up a bet that the S&P 500 SPX +1.53% is headed for a fall.

Within Friday’s 13F filings news was the revelation that the firm, founded by legendary investor George Soros, increased a put position on the S&P 500 ETF SPY -0.01% by a whopping 154% in the fourth quarter, compared with the third. (A put or short position basically gives the owner the right to sell a security at a set price for a limited time, and in making such a bet, an investor generally believes the security is going to decline.)...

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Victoria Nuland - Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs

We have invested more than 5 billion dollars to help Ukraine to achieve these and other goals. ” Nuland said the United States will continue to “promote Ukraine to the future it deserves.”

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